>your city >best bookstores there

London

Skoob, Judd

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>city

Manchester England. We have a pretty awesome three story Waterstones, and the fiction and humanities rooms are bigger than a lot of bookstores.

Also, we have an awesome second hand bookshop that's only open on the weekends run by a guy with no hands. It's filled to the brim with hidden gems and hardback classics.

>>9794945

>waterstones
>pretty awesome

Pick one.

>>9794986

They can be decent, although it's rare. The one on Gower Street is pretty good.

>>9794859
>Perth
>Elizabeth's

>>9794981
Pretty much a homebody, but would like to hike around the Nevsky Prospect a little before I die.

>DC
>second story books in dupont
>the lantern in georgetown
>kramers if you enjoy sodomy
>abe books on the internet

>>9794859
Is her butt okay?

Paris
Shakespeare and Co.

>>9795008
>being this fucking casual

wew

>>9794859
>vancouver

>paper hound
>mcleod's

BRISBANE

The one million books place. I don't know its real name sorry

A moderately big city on the fringes of Eastern Europe.

I don't know, I'm just ordering the stuff I want from a small store that sells run of the mill stuff to stay afloat.

>>9795008
Olsen's I guess is gone. Sad.

>>9794859
you wish

>>9794868
what, do you live in some unincorporated area? hope you enjoy paying taxes to some random city for FD and PD

You can never go wrong with Fnac for new books. If you are willing to look for a book an entire afternoon on second hand bookstores then you may find a good copy for half the price but sometimes it isn't worth the effort so you just suck it up and go buy Recognitions while everyone else is buying GoT and the latest YA trilogy

>>9794859
Frankston.

no book stores. more than one hundred and twenty liquor outlets, but no book stores. i want to burn Frankston to the ground.

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It's a Waterstones... but it's great inside. Was an old chapel. Smells brilliant - new paper and fresh ink. On warm days they set the air conditioning just so. It's a shame recent years has seen less attention paid to the stock: more and more crap (books and nasty stationery) taking up space and books being maltreated - latter could be selfish twat customers, I s'pose. (No coffee shop, either - yet...)

Houston

Amazon

>>9795008
>if you enjoy sodomy
what did you mean by this?

>>9795250
Cuck

Philadelphia

The book trader
The last word bookshop

>munich

The Munich readery

>>9795250
..Amazon?
Lets try again

Houston

Kaboom books

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London

Foyles (the flagship store), Skoob, that old bookshop in Hampstead, the second hand bookshops on Charing Cross Road

Do my fellow /lit/ Londoners know any good bookshops that specialise in sci-fi and fantasy?

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Edinburgh. The secondhand shops on Grassmarket.

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>>9795336
Oh, and the used book market underneath Waterloo Bridge on the south bank sometimes has good stuff (pic related)

But it can be a pain in the arse to browse when it's busy on the weekend

>>9794859
>tfw the only bookstore in town is a hybrid hipster coffee shop that seems to specialize in new age healing books

Life is suffering.

>>9795327
It's a nice store but a lot of the used paperbacks are way overpriced for the quality they're in.
Antiquariat Lugauer (for classics) and Antiquariat an der Universität (for philosophy and rarities) would be my picks.

Detroit
John K. King books

It's in an old glove factory so it's pretty neat to walk around but it's difficult to find anything even with the maps they give you. Usually I can't get what I originally went in for and find something else randomly, but that's half the fun of going there

Eugene, OR
Smith Family
Smith Family (x2)
Maybe Black Sun Books

Toowoomba
...

>>9794945
Paramount books is still going? Excellent.

Portoviejo
Fucking none
Not even chain bookstores open here. There's a couple of small bookstores that sell only best sellers, YA, bad editions of classics and similar stufff.
It isn't even a small city. It has nearly 300k people, but that doesn't save it from being an illiterate artistic blackhole

>>9795422
>Antiquariat Lugauer
I have never been (wrong side of munich).
Is it really better in stock and price than the Readery?Which, I agree, really is overpriced at times.

Nashville
McKay's

>>9795017
MacLeod's is fucking massive, they even have a space just as big as the store that is filled to the fucking brim with books like a block down. Too bad they're too lazy to keep the place tidy, but def the best bookstore in Vancouver.

Albion is also good, but the selection is smallish (it's literally right next to MacLeod's so I stop by since I'm already there).

Some others that are neat are People’s Co-Op Bookstore and Kestrel Books.

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Los Angeles
Small World Books

>>9795696
Well, Readery only sells English books so you can't really compare the stock.
Price is better in my experience.
I'm going to warn you: If you don't want to dig in crates and go through rows and rows of only somewhat sorted books then Lugauer is not for you.

>>9795015
Quit larping. It isn't even the best English language bookstore in the city.

I live in a village but Ipswich is the closet town
>WHSsmith
>Waterstones

What about in Toronto?

>>9794986
It's 3 stories high and I've never had a problem finding books there. What more do you want?

>>9795843
>Canada
>relevant

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>>9795341
THIS
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S

Going to be living within spitting distance from them next year, excited desu

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>>9794859
Kansas City, Half Priced books.
I mean I know it is not fancy and most of them are next to liquor stores and hair salons but, come on all of the books are half-Priced. You cannot beat that.

>>9795002
my nigga

>>9795843
fucking BMV or some shit

There's a shitty used books store with a really nice owner, but it's closing down at the end of the year

Then there's an independent bookseller that shares space with a kitschy hobby shop that has a pretty decent selection and sources rare books, which is lit

Such is life in rural towns

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>>9795357

Go early newfriend

>Miami
>Books & Books

Place is overpriced. Bought some Nietzsche translations (Dover Thrift) and totally regretted it.

>>9795934
>but it's closing down at the end of the year
you will be able to buy so many cheap books there then.

Should buy some for /lit/izens if it is incredibly cheap imho.

Sydney

Probably Gould's.

>niggerham, AL
>only decent bookstores are B&N and BAM which mostly cater to hipsters and white trash fujoshits

>small english town
>we have a town bookshop but to keep afloat it's whored itself out to a tea shop upstairs and there is barely anything in there now
>we have an oxfam which is pretty decent though.

>>9795956
She hasn't put sale prices on yet, I think she's hoping someone will buy the store outright lmao

also I would never ever want to have any kind of contact with /lit/ outside of shitposting on the actual board, and especially nothing that would have me shipping shit all over

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>>9795969
>I would never ever want to have any kind of contact with /lit/ outside of shitposting on the actual board

>>9795722
You seem to go to more Bookstores here in Munich than I do.
I have been looking to buy "Joseph Goebbels. Die Tagebücher".
Where would you go to look for them?

>Denver CO
>Probably the Tattered Cover

I live in San Leandro, CA, which has one relatively good comics store and nothing else. Oakland, however, has Walden, Berkeley has Moe's and the two of them have Half-Priced Books.

>>9796858
>I live in San Leandro, CA, which has one relatively good comics store and nothing else. Oakland, however, has Walden, Berkeley has Moe's and the two of them have Half-Priced Books.

Raised there too. Check out Green Apple in the city. Easy to get to via BART and Muni. You won't regret making a day of it.

>Vancouver, BC

Carson Books is without a doubt the best used bookstore in the city. His selection of /lit/-tier books is impressive.
The Book Man in Chilliwack is the best bookstore within a few hours' driving distance of Van. Their counterculture section is fun to pick through.

>Decently sized city in the Midwest
>Our Barnes and Noble is decent.

Bumping to save a good thread

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>>9795561
I hate that place. I've never gotten what I wanted and heroin addicts just stand in the way.